21.10 lesson-1.md

Core Concepts of GitLab CI/CD

Author: JavaScriptonit

Course/lesson-1.md

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 ## Welcome to the GitLab CI/CD course
 
+### Core Concepts of GitLab CI/CD:
+1. Jobs
+2. Stages
+3. Pipeline Syntax
+4. Conditionals
+5. Regular & Secret variables
+6. Reusing Configuration Code
+7. Artifacts: Test reports & share Data
+8. Workflow Rules
+9. needs vs dependencies
+10. GitLab's Built-In Docker Registry
+
+### Git Repositories for the course:
+
+Starting from chapter 2:
+
+[Simple demo Node.js project](https://gitlab.com/nanuchi/mynodeapp-cicd-project)
+
+
+Starting from chapter 7 (Microservices):
+
+[Microservice mono-repo](https://gitlab.com/nanuchi/mymicroservice-cicd)\
+[Microservice poly-repo](https://gitlab.com/mymicroservice-cicd)\
+[CI-templates (in the poly-repo group)](https://gitlab.com/mymicroservice-cicd/ci-templates)